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Ah, well. Also on the set, I got a hug from Anne Heche, and if she was Gay, she at least during that hug was bisexual. Pretty swell. Rest in peace. She died, in a car crash at an intersection just past the departure end of Runway 21, Santa Monica Airport. Some two hundred yards away, on the Penmar Golf Course, Harrison Ford put his broken airplane down in 2016. A superb bit of flying. He’d put the plane, a 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, up for sale a year previously, and I’d considered buying it. A decade ago, the airport was a thriving concern. Harrison kept four or five planes there; and he took me flying in one of them, an Aviat Husky. Tony BillIII took me up in his WACO biplane, and we did lazy eights out over the ocean. I don’t think there is a photo of a pilot and plane in which the pilot isn’t smiling. But this smiling was too much for the puritans of the Santa Monica City Council, and the airport’s been strangled into nonexistence, and an upcoming new life as a real estate boondoggle.
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David Mamet (Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood)